October AKA Convention - Sept 30 - Oct 7, 2012 - Enid, Oklahoma! No, really. Enid, OK. I've got nothing against Enid, but it is about two hours from Tulsa or 1:45 from OKC . . . so you have to be really committed to going to the convention to get there. I'm not sure how Enid got the convention, but maybe someone can fill me in on how the location is selected.

Note - the main reason I did not link most of the Milwaukee / Wisconsin festivals is because (as of this writing) the sponsor's web site was showing me 2011 events for the links (although his main page for Events showed the 2012 dates. Maybe Jynx will sort out the sponsor . . . .)

If use Google Calendar, you can also add the IKE calendar to your calendar.The Festivals link at the top of this page will update for the new year at some point too.

Also, look at the Festival Archive posts to get a feel for any festival you're thinking of attending.And finally, post here with any questions about any festivals anywhere in the world that you're curious about. Some festivals are very much worth a drive, others are fun enough if they are in your neighborhood.

Thanks for bringing this thread back. I missed when it "disappeared" into the new 2012 forum (which was locked for a bit), but it looks like I need to do some more work to gather info so you can get the calendar up to date. I think that calendar is part of what puts IKE at the top of Google searches for kite info in this area.

I thought I'd resurrect this thread since it's now April - and getting into peak season for kite flying.

Some of the festivals / events listed above are not on the "main" festivals list, so any forum readers may want to check back here until Jeff gets a chance to push them all onto the "main" list on ikeclub.org.

In addition, back when I updated the list, not all the dates were finalized on the vendor / park district web sites. There are some more final dates there now . . . .

Rockford now appears to be May 6th, from the link on Chicago Kite (in my post above). This makes more sense since the 6th is a Sunday. However, the details of the listing still reference the 1st . . .

Spring out to Sunset is linked over on the Hoosier Kite Spring out to Sunset Valparaiso, IN - May 19th. Looks like 180Go! are attending this event. It's also listed on the Hoosier Kite page.

And not sure . . . looks like Chicago Kite's event in Northbrook is replaced with one in Indiana . . . not sure what happened there (it's the same link that used to say Northbrook . . . now it is Memphis, IN June 16th

Windscape (Saskatchewan!) is now showing June 23rd & 24th on the link I referenced a few posts back.

Hoosier Kite also lists a bunch of events, including a "New Event" for a Michigan City, IN Kite Festival - June 30 - July 1 Location: Washington Park, 115 Lakeshore Dr., Michigan City, IN. Time: 11am-6pm both days. This is on the beach, so maybe there will be good winds even though it's in the middle of summer. I might check this one out. Plus the 180Go site says they'll be there.

Waukegan, IL Sept 8th - 10-5 at the beach. Not a lot of details currently on this one other than it's new for 2012. This seems to be replacing the one for Carol Stream, because the link for "Carol Stream" above goes to this one now.

180Go! Has been invited to the "New Event" for a Michigan City, IN. But I don't have much info on it yet. I'll post whatever I get when I get it.We won't be at the Saskatchewan event this year, but we will be at the N.D. fest.

Mike wrote:If use Google Calendar, you can also add the IKE calendar to your calendar.The Festivals link at the top of this page will update for the new year at some point too.

Also, look at the Festival Archive posts to get a feel for any festival you're thinking of attending.And finally, post here with any questions about any festivals anywhere in the world that you're curious about. Some festivals are very much worth a drive, others are fun enough if they are in your neighborhood.

FYI for those of you new to Google calendar . . . assuming you have a Gmail account, there's a calendar link at the top of the Gmail page. However, I wasn't able to add the calendar by using a URL or search. I found the easiest way to add the calendar to my google calendar was to go to the calendar on the IKE calendar page (link is here), and then click the "+Google calendar" button, which shows up on the bottom right hand corner of the calendar.

I've always kept my "main" calendar in Outlook but I'm going to see if this shows up on my new android phone.

Now, of course . . . . this will put more pressure on Jeff to update the calendar with all the events . . .